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sorry that you think my fictional ship is illegal. I actually consulted a fictional lawyer about it and he had a talk with a fictional cop about the fictional laws and then they both looked at me, and very seriously said "we'll allow it because it's hot."

One of my favourite scenes from chapt.20 of Jambound

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

fun fact! every ship is a "proship" because proship isn't a type of ship, it's just letting people ship what they want!

I could genuinely be wrong here, but if a piece of fictional media is able to somehow affect your morals I think that might say something more about you than the media.

people into kodocon who dislike noncon 🤝 people into noncon who dislike kodocon

respecting eachother

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Funny, ain't it?

YouTuber: Hey, I swear and cuss and yell. But my videos is not geered towards children. It's not my job to monitor your children and make sure they only consume content age appropriate to them.

Anti: Yeah. People shouldn't be expecting random YouTubers to make content for kids.

Horror Writer: Hey, I make graphic and scary media. But my books/movies are not meant for children. And it's not my job to make it appropraite for children/

Anti: Yeah. They made it clear what the movie was in the trailer/poster. If a child watches that and gets scared it's their own fault. The writer made it for adults not kids.

Adult Show Creators: Hey, my show has sexual jokes and violent imagry. But it's not my fault if a child sees my work. My shows are for adults, not children.

Anti: Yeah. Not everything is meant for kids. It's up to parents to make sure their children don't see inapropriate material.

Libriarian: Hey, we have a variety of books including books parents don't agree with. But I'm not payed to monitor what children are reading. The most I can do is ask a child if they know what they're reading and if it's in their age bracket. But I can't memorize the morals of every parent of every child who comes here to make sure they're reading approved books. And it's absurd to expect me to.

Anti: Yeah. Book banning and censorship is alt-right tactics and disgusting. It's not libriarians' jobs to make sure your child is reading books you approve of. If you don't want your child seeing somehting you don't approve of, you monitor them.

Proshipper: Hey, I make content with taboo themes and imagry. But I make it clear children shouldn't be seeing my content and it's not meant for them. My content is meant for adults and it's not my job to parent random people's children.

Anti: That's groomer logic! Keep that shit to yourself! What if a child sees it!? You deserve to rot in jail! KYS! Pedo! Children don't listen to DNIs! We should be protecting children from this degeneracy!

“stop romanticizing this ship. it’s toxic and abusive 🤬 people who ship them romanticize abuse🤬” the only thing people will take from your post is that your brain hasn’t developed well enough for you to separate fiction from reality

“fiction affects reality 🤬” by this logic, Hannibal fans are cannibals and people who like horror / slasher films are murderers

“shipping them is insensitive and triggering to abuse victims🤬” by this logic, Squid Game is insensitive and triggering to murder victims and their families, and everything is, one way or another, insensitive and triggering to some people